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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

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Sat 1 Mar 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor Op.13 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Beethoven: Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No 13 in G major, Op 106 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • John Eccles

    The Mad Lover Suite: Ground. Aire III; Ground. Aire V

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Chopin.
    • Naive.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Von deiner Güt, O Herr und Gott (The Creation)

    Singer: Sally Matthews. Singer: Dietrich Henschel. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • DAVIS, Colin: Schopfung.
    • LSO LIVE.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 5 No. 1: III. Rondeau

    Conductor: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Vivaldi: Les 4 Saisons.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Dreamers’ Circus

    The Old Goat

    Ensemble: Dreamers’ Circus.
    • Handed On.
    • VERTICAL RECORDS.
    • 4.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op.43 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Carl Nielsen / Paul Taffanel - Wind Quintets.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1-4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborado del gracioso

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Ravel: Ma mere l'Oye, Rapsodie espagnole: Berliner Philharmoniker, Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wine, women and song, Op.333

    Music Arranger: Alban Berg. Performer: Alfred Mitterhofer. Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Strauss; Lanner: Waltzes.
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Grace Williams

    Hiraeth (Yearning)

    Performer: Edward Witsenburg.
    • Harp Music from Six Centuries.
    • Globe.
    • 20.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • AVIE.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894: IV. Allegretto

    Performer: Shai Wosner.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 845, D. 894, D. 958, D. 960.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Sauli Zinovjev

    A Due

    Performer: Olli Hirvanen. Performer: Johanna Kärkkäinen.
    • A Due.
    • Pilfink records.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concert No 12 in A major K.414: 3rd movement - Allegretto

    Performer: Elizabeth Sombart. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Vallet.
    • Rubicon Classics.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Rose Garden (The Sea Hawk)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Phil / Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet no.1 in E minor 'From my life' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.
    • Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners: Previn, Perlman.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

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